1Dept. of Medical Physics in Radiology,
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; 2Dept.
of Neuroradiology, University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

In this work,
we investigate the suitability of different ASL techniques for high resolution
dynamic angiography imaging of the cerebral vasculature at 7 Tesla. As the
basic STAR sequence is prone to magnetization transfer effects, an additional
inversion pulse was inserted prior to the acquisition of the control image.
Furthermore, a PICORE, a FAIR and a FAIRER sequence were implemented. The
cerebral vasculature of three volunteers was imaged with an in-plane
resolution of 0.57x0.57mm using all five sequences. The acquisition time for
the magnetization transfer compensated techniques was increased by up to 20%;
however the visibility of peripheral vessels was improved.